Been drinkin' and thinkin' about Game of Thrones' finale. I loved it. Here's why.

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7. I hear you. I prefer the interpretation that he told the truth.

That last line is the Big Bone of Contention about Bran.

I'm not going to interpret him as dishonest, since he would never have suffered as much as he did to just be the Three-Eyed Raven. You have to look back at the evidence.

My take is that we'll really never know whether or not he was lying all along. But more evidence points to the opposite than to your claim.

Bran revealed key history that changed Jon Snow and the family. But Bran never said one thing about the future to anyone. We all have glimpses of the future, but there aren't enough for us to control whether, when or if it even happens. In past episodes we only see what Bran was seeing while it was happening.

He could stay calm because knowing everything that's happening is knowing that it's supposed to happen. Knowing is seeing what's real. The futures of men are guided by their free will decisions and how they move forward or backward with them.

I prefer the interpretation that he told the truth, AND what he said to Tyrion was a function of his Being totally in the Now, so that, as a brother to the Stark women, he'd, of course, come all that way to be there. As did they all. Note that his last words to Jon Snow's apology was that Snow was "exactly where he was supposed to be."